Word: latex
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...minutes are spent considering the latex paint and high gloss on the polished wooden floors that have replaced whitewash and brush brooms, inevitably softening the mean reality of turn-of-the-century Texas hill-country life. Then the familiar voice of Lady Bird Johnson, tape-recorded and piped through speakers in each room, leads the group through: "You are now looking in what was the President's nursery. The small Teddy bear on the cradle was the President's favorite...
...port of Kompong Som (formerly Sihanoukville) in the south and Chup, site of Indochina's largest rubber plantation, in the north. Attacking the Chup plantation, whose 64,000 acres had become a haven for elements of the Viet Cong 9th Division, South Vietnamese Skyraiders reduced the latex plant to a smoking ruin. Trouble is, they also killed 15 civilians...
...Liquid Latex Pavement. At Texas A. & M., Research Engineer Douglas Bynum, 35, is testing his theory that the rubber in discarded tires might give asphalt added flexibility and more resistance to cracking. Working in the university's Transportation Institute, Bynum prepared samples of asphalt combined with ground-up rubber obtained from old tires. Test results showed that the powdered rubber-used as a binding material-increases asphalt's overall cohesiveness so that it does not split when roadbeds shift slightly or sink. Bynum's findings seem to be a natural outgrowth of experiments by the rubber industry...